Posts from: March 2015

Are you at the Gartner BI and Analytics Summit? So are we! Join us at these various events throughout the Summit, and follow along at @MSPowerBI to hear the latest news from the event. Microsoft Booth #311 in the Expo Hall : Stop by the booth in…

NOTE: Information good as of 3/29/2015 and is subject to change! I wanted to share a quick trick that you can do to add titles to your Power View reports within the Power BI service. Let’s look at the problem. When we create a Power View report within…

Power BI Designer is a tool that can help you create interactive reports. You can pull data from various data sources like SQL Server, OData Feeds, etc. Let’s look at how we can use Power BI Designer to pull data from SQL Server and add those data elements…

Try what’s coming next for Power BI! We’re very glad to announce a new update for the Power BI Designer Preview . This month’s update includes new features and improvements across all major areas in the product: connectors, transformations…

An important part of good customer service is ensuring that your customer needs are being met quickly and efficiently. This means not only hearing from your customers, but analyzing how your customers and your team are interacting. This is where Power…

We see a lot of people who are doing amazing things with the new Power BI APIs. In today’s post, we have with us Rui Quintino. Rui leads the Business Intelligence and Analytics team at DevScope. Rui and his team have been hands on with the Power BI APIs…

When we introduced the first round of the Power BI REST APIs, we made it really easy for all different types of applications and devices to land data in Power BI. We have seen developer’s connect all kinds of IoT devices to Power BI in order to…

by Anand Mariappan, Senior Software Engineer for Power BI I am a Senior Software Engineer in the Power BI team working on the dashboard experience. Recently, I had the opportunity to volunteer in Uganda between Jan 19th to Feb 3rd through the MySkills4Afrika…

With Power BI our customers can keep a pulse on their business by bringing all their data together and monitoring it through a single pane of glass. Live Power BI dashboards and reports show visualizations and KPIs from data that reside both on-premises…

This is a guest blog post from Thomas LaRock, the President of PASS (Professional Association for SQL Server) It’s no secret that the role of data in the IT industry, in business, and in the world at large is changing at a rapid pace. As technology…